Members of a Fox News “business show” panel fell over themselves endorsing Ted Cruz’s plan for more targeted policing of Muslims “neighborhoods.” Never mind that New York’s police commissioner has blasted Cruz for the suggestion. These business experts and a talk show host think they know better.

Panelist and talk show host Gina Loudon doesn’t have a single credit in national security, policing or terrorism. But she sided with Cruz, saying. “We’re at war right now” and accusing President Obama of not recognizing that fact “while he’s out dancing and golfing and doing the wave at baseball games.” Loudon continued, “This is a real, true insurgent war, and we’re talking about keeping all neighborhoods safe. We’re talking about keeping people around the mosques safe, too, because if any area is at risk, it would be where the hotbed of the activity is going on, but that makes all Americans safer.”

Actually, it doesn’t make Americans safer, according to NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. He wrote in a scathing op-ed:

It is clear from his comments that Sen. Cruz knows absolutely nothing about counterterrorism in New York City. We have in this city, without a doubt, the most effective and extensive counterterrorism capacity of any city in this country and virtually any city in the world.

… We police our city not by campaign slogans or inflammatory rhetoric, but by an old piece of parchment called the U.S. Constitution and another called the Bill of Rights.

But panelist Jonathan Hoenig took Cruz’ plan to a whole new level of ignorant, anti-American sloganeering.

HOENIG: Muslim American rights are upheld more in America here than they are anywhere else in the world. To Gina’s point, I mean, jihadism is at war with the west, and it needs to be destroyed, not just degraded, not just deterred as Obama talks about when he’s doing the Lambada or the Tango or whatever it is.

I think it’s going to necessitate a total war in the Middle East, Iran and Saudi Arabia, but in the interim at least working with these Muslim communities, just as we work with gang communities, where there’s gang violence being festered, work with these communities where there’s possible hotbeds of local home grown terrorism.

But what Hoenig has in mind for Muslim communities in America is a lot more ominous than “working with” them.

HOENIG: This notion that if we patrol, if we do investigations, if we do police work in America, to keep Americans safe, somehow, you’re going to radicalize people that are already here simply by doing their job, your job. And that is the president’s job. To eliminate radical Islam wherever it is, whether it’s in mosques, whether it’s in churches or synagogues or schools or anywhere else. That’s his primary job and I think he’s not doing it. In fact, he’s dropping the ball because …he’s comparing police work with the destruction of individual rights as happens in Cuba on a daily basis.

Actually, it is not the president’s “primary” or any other kind of job to eliminate radical Islam, it’s his job to keep the country safe and if Hoenig can’t see that there’s a difference, he has no business spouting off about this. Furthermore, who’s going to decide who’s a “radical” Muslim and who's a "safe" Muslim? It’s a slippery, anti-American slope and not a single other member of the panel called Hoenig out on it.

Democratic panelist Jessica Tarlov did note Bratton’s scorching criticism. “NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton came out and said Ted Cruz doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” she said. “I understand what Ted Cruz is saying, but he’s just riling people up and, frankly, that policy I believe that would make us less safe.” She also noted that New York City dropped its program of targeting Muslim neighborhoods because it was ineffective.

But host Eric Bolling endorsed Hoenig’s comments by misconstruing and downplaying their import. “Jonathan’s right. Playing around and trying to protect their feelings, the terrorists’ feelings, so they don’t get mad at us, is PC stuff, is getting people killed.”

Loudon agreed.

Watch the amateur, knee-jerk reactions of bigotry below, from the March 26 Cashin’ In.

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Ff and Ron Waters…how do you wipe out an ideology?the POTUS has no chance of doing that, it can’t be done and I’d be worried more about jihadists coming to America just on a simple tourist visa they don’t have to come here as refugees and I’m tipping they probably won’t because I takes so long to be vetted, its so much easier coming in as a tourist as they did for 9/11…it’s so sad…I think they will never be wiped out completely….They have always been there mind you Bush made it a lot worse when he invaded Iraq and disbanded the army….as I said it’s an ideology what else makes people blow themselves up.

target all Muslims? that is not even what I stated. But, you still need law enforcement in their community not only to weed out the bad for our protection , but also for the protection of those Muslims in the community that are just here for a better life. so, you’re saying do not send police patrol there. this is America, Right?

We don’t know these people that came across the border, they were not vetted and we now know there were radicals in the group. so why is there even a question. Obama the sissy won’t do it, so individual states must.

What is rich, is that a city which had a program called Stop and Frisk would complain about checking out hotbed areas of terrorism. If it is ineffective, then so be it. But this is a time of war whether officially declared or not. Further, police have traditionally had a difficult time policing muslim neighborhoods. Should that be acceptable to Americans?

Hey Teddy ‘Carpet Bomb the Muslims’ Cruz and your drooling fair and balanced Foxy fanboys and fangirls, if we only heard up all Muslims and send them to ghettos and make them wear a star and crescent on their out clothing it’ll be much easier to track them and keep white Christians feel safe. Eh? ;^)